Analysis of The day God saved Tampa Bay



The Day God Saved Tampa Bay
October 9, 2022
Richard Hosea

It was a bright and sunshiny  day with not a cloud in the sky,
Little did it seem like that a storm would turn in to be beautiful to the eye.
As I watched I saw the storm clouds rise in the west,
The beautiful day that should have been became what was not the best.

As the hours passed by the day became much darker
The rains came down in torrents so we could not see our marker.
On and on the rains came down from daylight on to darkness,
We wondered if we could withstand these hours of hardness.

Then the lights went out to add fear to our distress,
But we weathered the storm and to this I must confess.
We wondered if we would ever see sunshine again,
But the next day the storm was gone I knew we could attain.


Scheme XAX BBCC AADD EEXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0111101 010 10010 110101011101001 10111110111011100101 111110111001 0100111110111101 1010110101110 0111010111111010 1010111111110 11011101110110 1011111111001 1110010111101 110111101101 10110111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 778
Words 169
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

Written the day after a storm threaten Tampa Bay all we had was heavy rain.

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Submitted by rhosea34 on October 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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